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For your magnificent
achievement in formulating
the philosophy of
Objectivism; For your
incomparable literacy epics,
"The Fountainhead" and
"Atlas Shrugged"; For your
untiring battle against
mediocrity, triviality, the
cult of the parasite and the
second-hander; For your
fearless advocacy of reason,
individualism and laissez-faire capitalism; For your
unassailable exposure of
the moral bankcruptcy of all
forms of collectivism,
mysticism and altruism; For
your unflinching commitment
to the heroic, the perfect -
the total passion for the
total height - and your own embodiment thereof ...